Please do not get confused by the title. This is not a resource book of EDA software for electronics engineering, but a collection about how to program hardware in high level languages and alternative approaches. I prefer to call it as Rapid Hardware Programming with High Level Languages.

The motivation of collection of these open projects, resources and tutorials is try to help the programmers who have only programming experience in PCs, rather than the embedded systems. These programmers are experts on the PC platform, but they do not know how to light a LED at all, because they have not sufficient background in electronics engineering. After all, this resource book is trying to demonstrate those projects which are using traditional and alternative high level programming languages available in desktop OSes to manipulate the hardware devices. The software experts can expand their experience to embedded system with these open source projects. Of course, it is very helpful to study electronics engineering courseware for embedded system development.